Leupoldishain

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Leupoldishain
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 21 ″  N , 14 ° 1 ′ 34 ″  E
Height : 292 m above sea level NN
Area : 8.43 km²
Residents : 219
Population density : 26 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1999
Postal code : 01824
Area code : 035021

Leupoldishain is a district of the Saxon town of Königstein (Saxon Switzerland) in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains . The district consists of the two villages Leupoldishain and Nikolsdorf, first mentioned in 1379 .

geography

Leupoldishain is located about three kilometers west-southwest of Königstein on the Struppener flatness . Surrounding villages are Nikolsdorf and Hütten in the east, Bielatal in the south, Langenhennersdorf in the southwest, Cotta in the west, Krietzschwitz and Struppen in the northwest and Thürmsdorf in the northeast. On the southern edge of the Leupoldishain district lie the Nikolsdorf walls with the extensive natural monument Labyrinth , a strongly jagged rock group.

history

Local history

Leupoldishain was created by clearing as a forest hoof village during the German eastward settlement and was first mentioned in 1379 as Leutholdshayn or Leuchtholdshayn . Based on the place name, the locator could have been Luthold. Other forms of place names mentioned in documents include Lewtilshayn and Lutelshain (1445), Lawtilßhayn (1494), Leutelshain (1548) and Leuwelßhain (1555). Towards the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th century, the consonant change from -t- to -p- can be identified with Leipolzhain (1586) and Leupoldshayn (1619).

There were only a few craftsmen, predominantly the village was dominated by agriculture and forestry, which two and three-sided farms on the northern side of the valley still bear witness to today. Around 1870, the largest moor in Saxon Switzerland on the southern side of the valley was drained and used as pastureland. Its former location is still recognizable to the trained eye by means of some typical bog plants.

After the First World War , the still quiet community opened up to tourism and guest rooms were set up in the farmhouses. Compared to the nearby villages of Hütten and Pfaffendorf , however, Leupoldishain had poor transport links, which hindered tourist development.

At the end of 1944, a subcamp was set up north of Leupoldishain in the direction of Thürmsdorf , the inmates of which had to set up the Schwalbe II underground facility for the production of aviation fuel. The approaching front line and the early end of the war prevented completion.

Pit hunt set up in Leupoldishain to commemorate the uranium mining of Wismut

At the end of the fifties, the villagers built a natural stage with 1,100 seats as part of the national reconstruction project . Only half a decade later the stage had to be abandoned after the SDAG Wismut opened up a uranium ore deposit . With more than 2200 employees at times, the company was the most important employer in the region until 1990. The WISMUT GmbH Königstein branch is expected to be busy with the above-ground renovation work until 2020.

On January 1, 1999, Leupoldishain was incorporated into the city of Königstein.

The village already belonged to the electoral office of Pirna in the 16th century , from which the office of the same name emerged in the 19th century . After the Second World War and the administrative reform of 1952, the community remained in the smaller Pirna district in the Dresden district . As part of the two Saxon district reforms, Leupoldishain and the Pirna district became part of the Saxon Switzerland district in 1994 and with this in 2008 the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district .

In spring 2012, Leupoldishain was one of the filming locations for the fairy tale film Snow White and Rose Red .

Population development

year Residents
1834 104
1855 148
1871 162
1890 228
1910 344
1925 342
1939 320
1946 390
1950 386
1964 676
1990 271
1993 415
1995 360
1998 566
2013 219

By the mid-16th century there were 11 possessed men and 16 residents . A good 200 years later, a year after the Seven Years' War (1756–1763), 11 possessed men and 2 house owners were still living in the village.

In the first census in 1834 after the accession of the Kingdom of Saxony to the German Customs Union , 104 inhabitants were determined for Leupoldishain. By 1855 the number rose to 148 inhabitants in 26 households, which were distributed over 18 houses. The number of inhabitants rose to over 340 by the first decade after the turn of the century, but stagnated and fell slightly in the interwar period to 320 just before the start of the Second World War.

After the end of the war, refugees and resettlers were also accommodated in Leupoldishain and the population rose to around 390 in 1946. In the mid-sixties it was 680, but two and a half decades later it was only 270. In the nineties, there was again a strong population growth, whereby the number of inhabitants doubled despite strong fluctuations until the incorporation.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Leupoldishain in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  2. a b story. Leupoldishain.de, accessed on February 2, 2013 .
  3. ^ Leupoldishain, Saxon Switzerland. In: Website of the city of Königstein. Retrieved February 2, 2013 .
  4. The number of buildings, family households and residents in the cities and rural communities of the new judicial districts of the Kingdom of Saxony . In: Journal of the Statistical Bureau of the Royal. Saxon. Ministry of the Interior . No. 11 u. 12, 1856, pp. 178 ( digitized in Google book search).
  5. Information for 14 2 87 220 Leupoldishain municipality. In: Regional Register Saxony. Retrieved February 2, 2013 .

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